LOTO NEGRO

A phenomenological approach to understanding how social norms shape our perception of sexuality, romance, and human relationships. Abstract   This article proposes the Model of the Mediated Perception of One’s Own Sexuality (MMPOOS) as a phenomenologically inspired analytical framework for examining the influence of cultural and normative structures on the subjective experience of sexuality, intimacy, and interpersonal bonds. Drawing upon the phenomenological tradition and the concept of epoché , it argues that sexual experience may not present itself in an immediate or neutral manner, but rather be mediated by internalized interpretive systems that condition how individuals understand what they feel. Within this context, the concept of Allosexual Performativity is introduced, understood as the set of sociocultural mechanisms that tend to presume the universality and centrality of sexual attraction, thereby generating normative pressures that may influence the self-interpretation o...

The Transcendence of Eros in the Post-Organic Era Post-sexuality is emerging as a new paradigm of desire in contemporary culture. It does not entail the absence of Eros nor the denial of the body, but rather its radical reconfiguration: an experience in which intimacy, connection, and interdependence shift beyond sex as the central mediator. This article proposes an interdisciplinary reading, articulating phenomena from pop culture, ACE identities, spiritual practices, and kink/BDSM rituals, culminating in a theoretical framework that situates post-sexuality as a living, ethical, and aesthetically relevant phenomenon in the post-organic era. Download Article 1.    Introduction    In the Ghost in the Shell saga—across its films as well as series such as ARISE and Stand Alone Complex —one of the most provocative questions of the post-human era emerges: what happens to desire when the body ceases to be biological? Through its characters—particularly Motoko Kusanagi an...